Currently each contact (ship, asteroid fragment, etc.) creates this "1 new contact" line. Sometimes it is really a new contact, sometimes it is a contact you already scanned (=not new). Sometimes it you can't tell if the message is old or really new (as multiple such lines after each other may appear).
Currently going to the target panel and checking the list of contacts is the only way to check what is actually new.
Therefore I'd like to propose to get rid of those messages. Instead:
- Next to the "Info Panel" (in the title) make the following status display: [X] [Y]
- Show the number of unidentified (not scanned) contacts (=new) as [X] flashing when updated.
- Show the number of already identified (scanned) contacts as [Y], again flashing when updated.
- [X] and [Y] may be shown as just the number of contacts (e.g. [1] [3]) or as ship/others (e.g. [1/2] [0/3]). The later might be more details, however it may take too much space as there is the proximity and impact warning field.
... which reminds me that (at least for me) the proximity and impact warnings could be louder and larger. ;-)
Currently going to the target panel and checking the list of contacts is the only way to check what is actually new.
Therefore I'd like to propose to get rid of those messages. Instead:
- Next to the "Info Panel" (in the title) make the following status display: [X] [Y]
- Show the number of unidentified (not scanned) contacts (=new) as [X] flashing when updated.
- Show the number of already identified (scanned) contacts as [Y], again flashing when updated.
- [X] and [Y] may be shown as just the number of contacts (e.g. [1] [3]) or as ship/others (e.g. [1/2] [0/3]). The later might be more details, however it may take too much space as there is the proximity and impact warning field.
... which reminds me that (at least for me) the proximity and impact warnings could be louder and larger. ;-)